Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Stop Waiting on Mandates: CMS Challenges Health IT to Act Now. Amy Gleason joined Colin Hung to talk about why CMS brought the industry together (voluntarily) to create the CMS Health Technology Ecosystem. Gleason also spelled out the agency’s key priorities for data sharing, interoperability, patient access, and security. Read more…
Simple SMS Improves Medication Adherence for High-Risk Patients. At HIMSS26, Dr. Ben Long at Magnolia Regional Health Center described how the combination of DrFirst and MEDITECH used text message nudges to increase prescription fill rates by 10% and decrease 30-day readmissions. Read more…
Thoughts From the Experts on How to Scale AI. John Lynn covered a HIMSS26 session where UC San Diego Health and Notable outlined AI’s potential to provide clinicians with an abundance of insight by connecting disparate systems and automating the right parts of the workflow. Read more…
Why It’s Time to Ditch the Point-in-Time Security Snapshots. Colin connected with Community Health Network’s Patrick McGill and Jon Brown at TripleKey to discuss the need for continuous visibility – and real-time threat mitigation – in healthcare security. Read more…
How AI Can Bring Us a Golden Era for Medicine. Dr. Ruben Amarasingham at Smarter Technologies talked to John about why health systems are interested in multifaceted AI systems that bring together solutions for documentation, diagnosis, and billing. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Reinventing Clinical Trial Site Selection. Danny Lieberman and Simon Arkell at Ryght.ai chatted about using digital twins and AI agents to go beyond the EMR to scale trials and save money. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: A Deep Dive Into Healthcare AI. John and Colin covered hallucinations, trust, data quality, and other important concerns about using AI in a healthcare setting. Read more…
Digital Employee Experience Is Critical for Healthcare IT. DEX aims to improve how employees interact with devices, applications, and AI tools, said Matt Scavetta at Future Tech. This has a clear value prop in healthcare, as it means IT teams can address issues before they affect the patient journey. Read more…
Gaps in Unified Communications Deployment Pose a Risk to Frontline Healthcare. Standard UC infrastructure doesn’t cut it in a healthcare setting, noted Nick Muir at Spectralink. Ideally, clinical UC deployment will include native integration and maintain a single identity and presence across all staff personas. Read more…
Ensuring Continuity Without Workarounds Amid Intake Disruption. As intake forms come from different directions in different formats, workflows break down and payers lose visibility into how forms flow through the system. A controlled pipeline with strong governance and QA can help, said Vidhya Bhat at Imagenet. Read more…
When Nurses Miss the Message, Patients Pays the Price. Communication that’s disconnected from day-to-day nursing work contributes to patient care issues, said Melissa Hensley at Firstup. The remedy is communication that becomes more intentional and data-informed. Read more…
For Rural Health Transformation to Succeed, States Must Embrace Hybrid Care. The CMS program is different from past efforts to address rural health because continued funding is tied to outcomes instead of participation, noted RJ Marse at Sprinter Health. That means organizations must bring care closer to patients. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for March 18, 2026: Multiple roles for cybersecurity experts. Read more…
Bonus Features for March 15, 2026: Amazon and Microsoft launch healthcare AI agents. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Social care technology platform Findhelp received a $250 million investment from The Rise Funds.
- Virtual mental health care company Grow Therapy raised a $150 million Series D funding round.
- Patient-facing clinical agent Amigo AI announced an $11 million Series A funding round.
- Healthcare operations automation startup UnityAI closed an $8.5 million Series A funding round.
- Health Recovery Solutions acquired Rimidi, a chronic disease management and remote monitoring company.
- Messagepoint acquired Sefas, a customer communications management and enterprise communications processing vendor.
- Security and cloud services firm Virtual Technologies Group acquired Vector Tech Group.
- DoseSpot and Arrive Health merged to form Interra Health, a patient medication access platform.
Thanks for reading and be sure to check out our latest Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundups.
Happy Spring – and Happy Fall to any friends we have south of the Equator.
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